Talk:List of Japanese Pokémon names

Names should be read as if they are English words, as opposed to Japanese.

So, "Fushigidane" is pronounced Fu-shi-gi-dane? ((Ketsuban))

Sorry for the probably late reply (I'd know if you ended your question with four tildes (~~~~). No, fushigadane is pronounced fu-shigi-da-ne. Unfortunately, you'd really have to be able to understand katakana to get this page. I'm hoping for a change. Kanjo 01:35, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

And completely unrelated, I find it interesting that there's a note about using Control+F for Windows users; Internet Explorer must be about the only browser without Find-as-You-Type, as I know Firefox, Safari, Konqueror, and of course Opera all have it. --Meowth346

Thanks for pointing that out, Ketsuban, and thanks, Meowth, for the clarification. ((Argy))

Wait, wait... Fūdin and Foodin? Shouldn't these spellings reflect the fact that the character was based on Houdini? Can Fudin not be romanized as Hudin? -((GreenGiant))

The official romanization used by Nintendo, GameFreak, et al is "Foodin." As mentioned in the article, some official names (such as "Prasle" and "Frygon") don't make sense, but they ARE the official names. -((Argy))

But you should keep in mind, Japanese people are insane when it comes to romanisation. I mean, look at Kyamome's "official" romanisation -- Camome? Not only is that pronounced differently from "Kyamome" (how would "ca" make a "kya" sound?), it's the actual Japanese word for seagull. ((Ketsuban))

Bearing in mind that that same syllable in キャスリン represents ca in Catherine... It's not too far a stretch to imagine that they mean something like /kæmome/ rather than /kɑmome/ - 刘 (劉) 振霖 08:57, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Correct romanization of ローマ字

This article and others romanize "ローマ字" as "romaji". Would it not be "rōmaji", with the macron? MK 09:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, yes. But we don't write Tōkyō or Ōsaka all the time, do we? - 振霖_T 10:53, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

trademark checker

I found this, which seems to be an English version of the link on the page, would it work just as well? Speaking of which, how do you check trademarks with it anyway? Frugali 13:51, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Hippowdon's name?

Why are there question marks for Hippowdon's trademarked romaji section? Do we not know what it is? --RiverAura 00:48, 23 August 2009 (UTC)

P.S. I have no idea why it created this section twice. - unsigned comment from RiverAura (talk • contribs)

"Suikun"

I don't think I've ever seen this romanization being used; maybe once or twice on some old merchandise from around 1999-2000, but not recently. Heck, the official movie website has it romanized as "Suicune."

So...? 梅子^❀_✿ 19:50, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

I changed it in the list since technically they have moved onto 'Suicune' instead of 'Suikun' as you had pointed out, but what should we do about every instance of 'Suikun' in other Suicune-related articles? I have no idea when the change was made, but should we change them all to 'Suicune' or leave stuff as 'Suikun'? (Yaminokame 12:34, 25 April 2010 (UTC))

This doesn't have to do with the Suicune, but it's another difference; while going through this database, I stumbled upon trademark 4699119, which is for the phrase "プラスルとマイナン." Does anyone know where we got the romanization "Prasle" from? Because the trademark I mentioned just now is registered as "ＰＬＵＳＬＥ＆ＭＩＮＵＮ" instead of "ＰＲＡＳＬＥ＆ＭＩＮＵＮ". Which should be used? (Yaminokame 14:13, 25 April 2010 (UTC))

Fake names

I removed the name for the fake fish Pokémon as well as the swan and broccoli thing since they came from a fake scan. The Broccoli's name is probably be real since we got it back when the matching toy was revealed, but until we get official confirmation I figure we should just stick to what we know for sure.--A Tell-Tale Heart 16:47, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Chillarmy's Dex Number

Since we have an Isshu Dex number for Chillarmy (78), and thus we have a National Dex number for it (571), why is it still in the "As Yet Unnumbered" section? Is it because of the distance between 502 and 571? Phantom♫Junkie 18:56, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Probably because nobody actually got around to doing it yet. :B ~ solaris 18:57, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Well if that's the case, I'll take care of it if no one has gotten around to it yet. Phantom♫Junkie 19:01, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Kyogre versus Kaiorga

Well, it certainly seems we have a problem. After I finally figured out that the trademark database uses full-width Latin characters, it seems that "Kaiorga" is trademarked...but never got used. On anything. Meanwhile, "Kyogre" isn't trademarked, but shows up on at least three pieces of Japanese merchandise ([1] [2] [3]) as well as on a banner at some sort of Japanese event (I'm probably never going to find that photo again...but I knew it was Japanese because a Bursyamo banner was right beside it). How shall we deal with this?—Ｌｏｖｅはドコ？ (talk • contribs) 07:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

When in doubt, especially with legends, English name is the same as the Japanese. I say we go with Kyogre... TTEchidna 07:38, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Ugh, screw tinyurl...and it turns out, four pieces of merchandise. [4] [5] [6] [7]—Ｌｏｖｅはドコ？ (talk • contribs) 07:50, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

So what exactly is wrong with denoting them both? They have been terribly inconsistent with other Pokemon as well, so wouldn't it be better to note that different spellings of the same name are possible? We could just list all officially trademarked/used names here and then pick the one we feel as being the "true" one for the rest of the articles about that Pokemon. (Yaminokame 13:16, 6 September 2010 (UTC))